A Tale of Two Teachers
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Trouble for schools is they reopen especially in Indiana. |
| 0:05.2 | Students at L. Wood, Jr. Senior High School now have to go remote after staff members |
| 0:09.3 | tested positive for COVID-19. |
| 0:11.3 | The Des Moines Public School Superintendent planning to ask for a delay to the start of school |
| 0:16.3 | and have online classes for high schoolers. |
| 0:19.2 | The debate ever when school should reopen is happening nationwide and now just weeks away |
| 0:22.9 | from the traditional sort of classes many teachers are weighing in. |
| 0:26.7 | The new school year is starting up across the United States and it's all we've been talking |
| 0:31.0 | about in our house. |
| 0:32.5 | Truth is a lot of big questions remain. |
| 0:35.1 | Our kids are going to go back to in-person learning and what will school even look like. |
| 0:40.5 | I've talked a lot about the risks parents need to weigh about their children returning |
| 0:44.0 | to school but just as important are the decisions teachers have to make. |
| 0:48.4 | Nearly a third of teachers are 50 or older which means they could experience more serious |
| 0:52.8 | illness if they're infected with the virus. |
| 0:56.0 | And a lot of the features that would make returning to the classroom safer still have |
| 1:00.3 | yet to be worked out. |
| 1:01.9 | How do you ensure proper ventilation for example in a windowless classroom? |
| 1:06.2 | Can you get young children to keep their masks on? |
| 1:09.0 | And how do you limit class sizes to make social distancing possible? |
| 1:13.7 | These are just a few of the questions that school districts are scrambling to figure |
| 1:17.0 | out right now when that's leaving many teachers in a state of anxiety. |
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